Spindly shrub to 3.5 m high; younger branches distinctly ridged, dotted with pellucid glands but not warted, glabrous. Leaves trifoliolate; leaflets lanceolate, 23–82 mm long, 4–16 mm wide, acute, slightly discolorous, upper surface glabrous to glabrescent, lower surface glabrous or with scattered stellate hairs, oil glands obvious, margins entire and somewhat recurved; petiole 11–36 mm long. Inflorescence shorter than leaves, 7–29-flowered. Sepals deltoid, 1.2–2 mm long, sparsely to moderately tomentose; petals 3.5–6 mm long, white, imbricate, pubescent; ovary glabrous. Follicles dotted with oil glands, glabrous, with small terminal appendage, not warty; seed 3–3.5 mm long, red-brown to black, striated. Flowers spring.
Wim, GGr. Rare and endemic to Gariwerd (Grampians), where it is most prevalent in the northern range, with scattered records along creek lines in the southernmost Victoria Range. It occurrs in woodland and shrubland on shallow, rocky soils as well as riparian scrubs on alluvium.
Created by: Daniel
Ohlsen,
24 May 2016
Updated by: Alastair
Robinson,
30 Sep. 2024